Built for the trade
A Milwaukee battery kit walks out the door of a site shed somewhere in Australia every week. TTT puts a tracker on the kit, the toolbox or the trailer it lives in — so the next time it walks, you know where it went.
The pattern
Milwaukee M18 battery kits
Fuel combo sets in the red plastic case. $1.5k–$4k a pop. Walks out of site sheds, off Hilux trays, out of the back of vans parked at 7-Eleven.
Klein hand-tool rolls
A full Klein roll is $800+ and small enough to slide into a backpack.
Fluke meters
A Fluke 87V is gold to a thief — specific, expensive and easy to identify on a marketplace listing.
Conduit benders and threading kits
Larger, but high-value and routinely left on site overnight. Cordless ones get nicked twice as fast.
Copper offcuts
Scrap copper gets nicked from site bins and skip pans by the kilo. Scrap yards do not ask questions.
If it lives in the case it came in, painted yellow, or branded with your company logo — it is findable. That is why thieves move fast and sell on Marketplace before you have finished your morning coffee.
The damage
A single overnight hit on an electrical ute does more damage than most tradies expect:
How electricians use it
Use case
TTT goes inside the site shed — under a shelf, behind a stud — not on the tools themselves. If the shed gets rolled overnight, you get an alert the moment the shed moves. Police get coordinates instead of a "stolen, no leads" file note.
Use case
TTT goes inside the lid of the toolbox. Hidden, weatherproof, hard to spot. If the toolbox is lifted off the tray or cut open in a Bunnings car park, you know within seconds.
Use case
For sparkies running a 6×4 with a full kit, TTT goes inside the trailer body. Geofence around your depot. Get pinged if the trailer leaves outside work hours.
None of these is a silver bullet. Locks, lighting and insurance still matter. TTT is what tells you where the gear went after the locks fail.
FAQ
The questions tradies in this trade actually ask before they buy.
Yes — the signal works through hardened plastic and ABS. Inside a solid steel toolbox, signal drops; we recommend mounting the tracker on the underside of the toolbox or inside the ute body rather than inside the steel kit itself.
TTT runs on LTE-M which has better reach than standard 4G in industrial pockets. Last-known location is stored when the device is out of signal and reports the moment it gets coverage back.
Yes. The mount and the device are rated for typical site vibration. Constant high-frequency vibration (e.g. mounted directly to a compressor pump) will eventually shorten the battery — hardwire it to 12V in that case and leave the battery as backup.
Not directly — the tracker is too big to live in a battery housing. What you do is track the toolbox or storage that contains the batteries. AirTags work for individual battery-level tracking with Apple's Find My network if you want belt-and-braces.
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